SORDID LIVES by Del Shore
Directed by Doug Lloyd
Production: April 21 – 30, 2023
Auditions: February 27 & 28 from 7-10pm
The author of Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.
Auditions will consist of readings from the script.
Character Breakdown
- BITSY MAY HARLING – Female – Guitar playing, singing ex-con
- TY WILLIAMSON – Male 27- A beautiful gay man on a journey
- SISSY HICKEY – Female mid 50s – The caretaker that picked the wrong day to quit smoking
- NOLETA MAY NETHERCOTT – Female early 40s – Angry overweight betrayed housewife
- LATRELLE WILLIAMSON – Female early 50s – Ty’s uptight proper mother
- LA VONDA DUPREE – Female late 40s – Latrelle’s liberal minded worldly sister
- GW NETHERCOTT – Male late 40s – The distraught legless Vietnam vet
- WARDELL “BUBBA” OWENS – Male late 40s – The former gay bashing remorseful bartender
- ODELL OWENS – Male mid 40s – Wardell’s worthless story telling brother
- DR. EVE BOLINGER – Female late 40s – the oversexed, pill popping, alcoholic therapist
- EARL “BROTHER BOY” INGRAM – male late 40s – The Tammy Wynette obsessed cross-dresser
- REV. BARNES – Male – The Southern Baptist Preacher (may be double cast)
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